Improvement in dumping devices



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Y DUMPIN'G DEVICES. No.1-85,055. Patgnted 1190.5. I876.

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THE GRAPHIC (JO-N36 UNITED STATES PATENT OEEroE.

WILLIAM W ILLES, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TERRITORY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELFAND WM. H. ROWE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN DUMPING DEVICES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,055, dated December5, 1876; application filed October 30, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM WILLES, of SaltLake City, in the county of Salt Lake and Territory of Utah, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Dumping Devices, of which thefollowing is a specification Figure l is a front view of my improveddevice. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same, taken through the line ora, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of a modified form of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved device forloading and unloading vessels, cars, wagons, carts, and other vehicleswith substances that may be dumped without injury, for dumping mortarand rubble in building concrete walls, and for various other similaruses and which shall be simple in construction and convenient in use.

The invention consists in the combination of the triangular ends, theback, the swinging front, the rod, the pivoted latch-bar, the keepers,the hooks, and the bail with each other, and in the combination of thestation ary plate with the triangular ends, the back, andthe swingingfront of the device, as hereinafter fully described.

A are the ends, which are triangular in form, and may be vertical orinclined, as may I be desired. B is the rear side, which may berectangular or triangular in form, and the ends of which are attached tothe rear edges of the ends A. O is the forward side, which is made ofthe same shape and size as the back B, and is hung at or near its upperedge to a rod, D, which passes through and is secured to the upperforward corners of the ends A, so that the lower part of the said side 0may swing forward and allow the contents of the device to drop out. Tothe middle part of the swinging side 0 is pivoted the middle part of thebar or lever E, which passes through the long keepers F, attached to.the

limited. The ends of the bar E engage with hooks G, attached to the endsA, and which are arranged, the one with its cavity upward,

and the other with its cavity downward, so-

that the ends of the said bar E may be swung into and out of the saidhooks G by turning it upon its pivot.- The bar E may be locked in placein the hooks G by a pin, H, passed through it and through one of thesaid hooks Gr, so that it cannot be disengaged by an accidentalcollision. I is a hail, the ends of which are pivoted to the ends A, andin the center of which is formed a loop or eye, to receive the rope orchain by. which it is raised and lowered.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 a plate, J, is attached to the endsA near their forward edges, against which the swinging side 0 closes,and which does not extend down quite to the lower edge of the rear sideB, so

as to leave a discharge-opening beneath its lower edge, as shown in Fig.3.

The plate J adapts the device for use in sacking grain and other similaruses, Where its contents are to be discharged into a comparatively smallreceiver.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. The combination of the triangular ends A, the backB, the swinging front 0, the rod 1), the pivoted latch-bar E, thekeepers F, the hooks G, and the bail I with each other, substantially asherein shown and described.

2. The combination of the stationary plate J with the triangular ends A,the back B, and the swinging front 0 of the device, substantiallyasherein shown and described.

WILLIAM WILLES. [L. s.]

Witnesses:

W. O. DUNBAR, G. W. STAYNER.

